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  1. Re:So claim to be a... on Xbox Live Now Allows Gender Expression · · Score: 2, Funny

    This discriminates against androgynous, polysexual, pastafarian, anti-nationalists, you insensitive clods!

  2. Re:What's the problem? on Sony Patents Game Demos With Feature Erosion · · Score: 1

    This sounds very familiar.

    Some game company announced, or possibly implemented a system called RUST, which degraded the game as part of a DRM scheme.
    I can't find anything now though. Too many web pages about actual rust.

  3. Re:Dump TiVo for MythTV on TiVo Time Warp Judgment Affirmed · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ok I read up a bit on wikipedia.

    It's a Conditional-access module. Is it roughly pcmcia sized, or actually a pcmcia card?
    Freesat specifies a pcmcia slot for CAM, as well as an ethernet port for future use among other things.

    If you scroll right to the bottom of the EPG, there are a few ghetto channels that need a CAM, but I can't imagine anyone caring about that.

  4. Re:Dump TiVo for MythTV on TiVo Time Warp Judgment Affirmed · · Score: 1

    Yes.

    Well no, I have to pay the BBC licence fee, but MythTV can extract EPG data.

  5. Re:Dump TiVo for MythTV on TiVo Time Warp Judgment Affirmed · · Score: 3, Informative

    Cablecard? Is that some sort of DRM device? I'm not familiar with US cable TV.

    I have a DVB-S PCI card for UK Freeview. There are currently no Freesat cards on the market, but I'll grab one when they become available. Freesat is unencrypted so I don't have to worry about that.

  6. Re:Dump TiVo for MythTV on TiVo Time Warp Judgment Affirmed · · Score: 3, Funny

    But wait, there's more.

    TiVo want $59.99 for wifi. You're going to want wifi FFS!
    Then you will want a range of fanboi merchandise such as the $9.99 Tivo plush, $14.99 TiVo Folding Chair for watching your Tivo, $24.99 TiVo Slippers because you're not leaving the house.

    Finally at $24.99, the TiVo Duffle bag is large enough to bag up all this shit, take it to the dump, and realise what you really wanted was the MythTV with geek chick gang-bang.

  7. Re:Dump TiVo for MythTV on TiVo Time Warp Judgment Affirmed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't think you're going to convince anyone here.

    TiVo Premiere XL is $499 ,and has about the recording capacity you would expect if you plugged for a middle of the curve HD.
    Now for service. $12.95 per month? How long do I intend to use this thing? Let's go for $399 which is for "life of the box" and assume that Tivo never go out of business.

    So I get $898 to play with. I need to spend a premium on quiet gear, and slimline cases, PSU etc. Then I can keep it forever, upgrade incrementally, and all the geek chicks will want to come to my place to admire my e-penis.

    Not a difficult choice.

  8. Re:Does mythtv on TiVo Time Warp Judgment Affirmed · · Score: 1

    Some of us are not predictable enough to have things recorded for us by some algorithm, you insensitive clod!

  9. Re:What is a TV? on TiVo Time Warp Judgment Affirmed · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Why are Bluetooth mouses so rare? on Bluetooth 4.0 Devices To Make the Scene Later This Year · · Score: 1

    b) drivers

    I was surprised when I plugged a Belkin Mini Bluetooth Adapter, into a Ubuntu system and it plugged-and-played. Super.

  11. Re:Just fucking google it ! on China's Human Flesh Search Engine · · Score: 1

    "To organize the world's stupidity, and make it universally accessible and useful."

  12. Roll the bad analogies on There Is No Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    There is no war, but if you use IE, acrobat and flash, you are standing up in a front-line trench. It is only a matter of time before a bullet hits you in the head.

    Ok, ratings out of 10 for this analogy.

  13. Re:Why can't we all get along? on China's Human Flesh Search Engine · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hyperbole much?
    This is nothing but Chinese /b/tards. Bord teens to 30 somethings, who still live with their parents, as is the norm in China, going after very VERY soft targets.

    Nationalism is a disease not at all unique to China.

    ---
    Ministry of misuse and overuse of Orwell's novels.

  14. Wireless mouse on Bluetooth 4.0 To Reach Devices In Fourth Quarter · · Score: 1

    users will notice only nominal battery-life improvements for long-range or continuous data communication

    No power saving for mice unfortunately.

    I'm not sure why blue tooth mice are not more popular, with most companies going with their own propitiatory, battery guzzling shit for wireless. Logitech, that means you!

  15. Re:This is News? on LG's Windows Phone 7 Series Early Prototype · · Score: 3, Insightful

    FAR less information than this, routinely gets posted in the Apple section.

  16. Nagging Nora on How Do You Get Users To Read Error Messages? · · Score: 1

    The Euro-fighter has a feedback system called Nagging Nora. The system provides important audio warnings in a nagging women's voice.
    This could definitely work for computers.

  17. Re:Brand-name Power on BlackBerry Bold Tops Radiation Ranking · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why do you hate Americium?

  18. Re:Projector on Game Testing ATI's Six-Screen Eyefinity System · · Score: 1

    But I don't have eyefinity eyes yet, so I don't think I could appreciate it.

  19. Re:Flatscreen TV on Game Testing ATI's Six-Screen Eyefinity System · · Score: 5, Funny

    A big-ass flat-screen TV would not have a resolution of 5760 x 2160, and therefore would have a smaller e-penis.

  20. Projector on Game Testing ATI's Six-Screen Eyefinity System · · Score: 1

    If you're going to have multi-screens with the unavoidable 4-8cm of bezel between them, and a DELL logo right in the middle, you might as well get a projector.

  21. consolation on Web Heritage Could Be Lost · · Score: 1

    Damn you spell checker, damn you.

  22. Re:Sadness on Web Heritage Could Be Lost · · Score: 2, Funny

    The 90s were a unique time for web culture.
    A consultation for us who missed the 60s, with its promiscuous sex and hippy strength LSD; you can tell your kids about dancing baby, squealing 56k modems, Usenet flame wars, and reinstalling Windows 95 with active desktop 5 times per day.

    Ahh good times.

  23. Re:Thats scary.... on GoDaddy Wants Your Root Password · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They store all the passwords encrypted, and they can only be retrieved and reversed after a member of the security team opens a ticket and explains the reason for using the password (like to investigate malware)

    Look at this epic fail right here. All security bets, are off.

  24. Quasi futuristic styling on Hungarian Electric Car Splits Into Two Smaller Cars · · Score: 5, Funny

    People don't like futuristic looking stuff. If they did, we'd all be wearing white or silver jumpsuits.

  25. Mod up on US Unable To Win a Cyber War · · Score: 1

    This is nothing but propaganda.

    The term cyber-war is a dumbed down and meaningless term, just likes "series-of-tubes internet" to scare people, and spread ignorance about the topic of security.